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>Otherwise, by your same reasoning: White men people are genetically superior at leading, running companies, space travel, research, etc... Where as the truth, I suspect, lies in the context of their social situation, not their race.

By my line of reasoning superior skill in leading is a genetic possibility. You suspect the truth lies in the context of the social situation but can you prove it? Can you prove it either way? Without more evidence and from a neutral perspective both situations have roughly equal probability of being true.

My argument is that it is this cultural attitude of equality that makes us point to the social context rather than the genetic context when empirically speaking we don't know either way.

>"Working harder" is a cultural/social quality not a genetic quality. Same with black people dominating basketball, could just as easily be explained with social qualities rather than genetic. Really you have presented weak hypothesises in the form of rhetorical questions.

You really think black people dominating in the olympics and basketball and athletics in general isn't genetic? I can't prove it but this is something that's kind of intuitively obvious.

Here's an example of how genetics can influence how hard an organism works: Compare the busy bee with the sloth. Which one works harder? If genetics can influence how hard animals work, what magic makes it not touch how hard human races work or how intelligent they are? Can you prove it either way?

>They should be 'treated' equally is the thing we are taught. We all have our unique genetic advantages and disadvantages, but there shouldn't be social disadvantage based on genetics. It is good we are taught this, because it requires social change.

What makes this "hypotheses" true? You're saying all races magically have genetic strengths and weakness perfectly balanced the same way zergs, terran and protoss are balanced in starcraft? Tell me, what magical hand is enforcing this balance? Blizzard? Keep in mind, genetics is intrinsically linked with social behavior, it is not exclusively tied to just physical traits.
I use Google's App Engine which has live reload on the development server. My main page is static but I've got one page that's a bit more complicated:

http://www.h4labs.com

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html
No idea why you're being downvoted, this is the reason right here. I don't think I've met a single poor Chinese person in Canada.

Which makes sense since you can't immigrate here without a degree in a field the government has put on an 'in-demand' list. That or a spouse or family member financially sponsoring you.
GraphicsMagic > image magic

atop > htop
> if I am anyway going to start paid work, then why not
> give my future employer an opportunity to try me
> for two-three months.

Because you should instead spend those extra weeks looking for an employer who can derive enough value from your skills to pay you a fair market salary. Inviting employers to "try for free" will invite those who may not really know how to turn your effort into money. You say you're near bankruptcy, so now is not the time to screw around with getting paid.

> I am a software engineer with 10+ years experience...

Yes, but how does that help your employer make money? How does your programming effort:

* get a product to market faster?
* make customers buy more?
* increase referrals?
* decrease support calls?
* etc.

Your employer has to make money so they can pay you.
But it did work. Millions have an irrational antipathy towards drugs. Indoctrination works, especially when you get em while they're young.

The effects of DARE will echo through our society for generations. Just like the effects of a war or a natural disaster.
it wouldn't be that hard. if this was real, we'd have a good national treasure meets the notebook film to make.
As long as we're giving kudos, allow me to give some to you: htop is a great tool. Thanks for making it!
The moronism comes from a corporate culture that prioritises short-term gain over the invention of ultra-profitable long-term game-changers.

How many of the advances in computing have been inspired by MBAs demanding quarterly growth?

We have no formal tools for valuing our collective future.

Incubators and accelerators come closest, but the emphasis is still on believable prospects for profitability - hence investing in the team, instead of good ideas - and not on open research.
VW shareholder files first suit in Germany
Apple Aims to Create the Interface for EVERYTHING with AI Acquisition
I agree. This scheduler dialect for Rebol is pretty much the DSL you describe - http://softinnov.org/rebol/scheduler.shtml
That's a better test method, but since the VW fix is not available, it's worth trying something else. Although in this case, it seems the methodology is suspect: traction control applied brakes may be the source of the lost horsepower, and emissions weren't measured so there's no confirmation that the enhanced emission control mode was enabled either.
How long until Greg Egan writes a novel based on this concept? It should be right up his alley.
Compared to C they are.

You surely were using unsafe constructs explicitly, like taking the address of a variable wiht Addr or @, using pointer manipulation functions.

With C they just happen, given the lack of bounds checking, implicit conversions, automatic decay of arrays into pointers (specially bad as arguments), null terminated strings and undefined behaviours across compilers.
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What are you talking about? So what if WhatsApp is used by half a billion people? Good for the engineers, I guess? How is my third world country so much better off with WhatsApp than with the crappier alternative, vs. my third world country if it could attract its best and brightest into becoming teachers? I could see no better future for my country than some way to get and keep great teachers.
By definition https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Zoolande... is a microphone
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RAIL: A User-Centric Model For Performance
Do you have a link for this? Replacing even 500k engines in the US is indeed stupefying.
> I don't think I am missing the point. The Alto hardware was fairly simple, most stuff was done in software.

It is fairly simple to you today, given that Alto exists.

It wasn't that simple for those guys in 1968, trying to imagine how a 199x computer would look like (Alan's words). That was their goal.

> What do you want to build today that is too expensive to try out ?

That is why they are called inventions and there are patents to assign to them.

Nobody knowns without doing the proper research.
Ask HN: How do you find clients as an engineering contractor?
Finding new engagements seems like one of most daunting aspects of working as an independent engineering contractor. What strategies or resources have you used to solve this problem? How do you ensure that you have a steady stream of interesting and well-paying contracts?
My take on it is that special relativity provides no evidence that time is an extra dimension (like the spatial dimensions) in anything but a mathematical sense.

General relativity however has quite a lot of effects that mingle together space and time in various ways, so I'm still thinking about that one.
Its true there is no single word, but I think in this circle they use terms for this. Racial discrimination or prejudice.
> Maybe after 20 years, it has finally become clear that the Just-in-Time supporters were wrong, and that Ahead-of-Time compilation is the better approach.

I think your argument is only correct for one subset of languages - C, C++, Haskell - languages like that. For languages like JavaScript, Ruby, Python, JIT compilation is proving to be massively more successful, and it's really easy to understand. As soon as you have features like eval, AOT compilation is never going to be effective.
> all those forums and travel booking websites that don't offer me a choice.

So you would prefer to have the friction of an app store, or even just a platform-specific native executable, for every little service? And of course there's also the friction on the developer side, especially when submitting to app stores which act as gatekeepers.

Sure, native apps have better performance and often a better user experience all around, especially mobile apps. But your comment about forums and travel booking websites has got me thinking that we should really try to solve the performance and UX issues of the web platform rather than retreat to native apps.

Edit: Yes, I've taken both sides on the web versus native debate. I recently posted that JavaScript-based mobile web apps are second-class compared to AOT-compiled native mobile apps. I attribute my latest flip-flop to the fact that just last night I went through the tedious process of submitting a new app to the iOS App Store -- an app that could probably have been a web app. So now I want the web to win.
Devaluing Yuan had more subtle reason: Just recently China started to sell US Treasury bonds (they have about $2 bln of them to sell)

And if you sell bonds for yuans that causes the yuan's value to raise which hurts Chinese exporters. So, devaluating it first was a way of neutralizing that effect, protecting China's economy.

Bond sale itself was a way of putting mild pressure on US in the ongoing negotiations about making Yuan part of world's reserve system.
In principle, this should work - I haven't tried it, but in Conversations, the fingerprints of my other connected devices show up and I can say that they belong to me.

In any case, there are no desktop clients yet that support OMEMO. Conversations and Jitsi support Message Carbons though (together with a compatible XMPP service, such as yax.im) very well. On the console, there is profanity that also supports it.
I work at Oracle Labs and almost everything I do is done fully in the open, open source on GitHub, with lots of papers, blog posts and conference talks to explain how it all works.
FWIW, I have seen some fiction I've enjoyed in the format of "craigslist ad." Here's one that has stuck with me as a good example:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/08/the...
Every time my alumni magazine comes it has a page devoted to identifying passages that people remember but can't find.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lost/novels.html has tips on how to find books. Maybe some of the same places would have suggestions on how to find the article?
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Thanks, we would be happy to see it on your site. :)
> Despite talk of the yuan’s rise, the primacy of the greenback is unchallenged.

And it is just that, talk. People forget, as the Yuan rises, so does the dollar. The real question is, how much ground is the Yuan gaining on the dollar? And the answer? None. If anything, it's taken a couple steps back.

You see all these articles over the last few years about how the Yuan is starting to do well but for some reason, people think that the U.S dollar just stands still the entire time and is letting it catch up. It doesn't work like that. If the yuan was to ever replace the dollar, it would be several decades, likely much more, before it's even remotely close to replacing the dollar as the world's currency. If it happens, it almost certainly won't happen in your lifetime unless some asteroid drops of the sky, destroying most of the U.S.

Even in that unlikely event, they would still have to do something about their rampant corruption before countries start pegging their currency to the Yuan. They rank 127th on the global corruption index. No country is going to willingly sign up for that, a country that tightly controls it's own currency and where politics, business and corruption are all one in the same. It's just not happening.

Like it or not, the U.S dollar is simply the lesser of all the evils. And it's not even close, we're talking orders of magnitude. It also has a fortitude that is unrivaled by anything before in world history.
First, note that the Underground already uses regenerative braking. This article is about a new generation of braking technology.

The Gizmodo article at http://gizmodo.com/london-underground-is-trialling-regenerat... is better than this BBC article. (And the similarities help show which parts come from the press announcement.) It also mentions a £6m/$9m per anum power savings across the entire system.

Further, the article at The Memo https://www.thememo.com/2015/09/25/regenerative-braking-tech... says "If rolled out, Transport for London (TfL) estimates that the technology could save £6m every year in energy costs, or 5% of its total energy bill."

The Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_cooling says 'About 80% of the heat comes from the operation of the trains, 15% from other equipment, and 5% from people'.

Putting it all together, the extra savings (5% of 600 GW-years) is equivalent to about 1/2 of the heat generated by the passengers.

That's about all can figure out on the topic.
The idea that a company would have 500 meaningful and actionable metrics that would each produce relevant data daily seems laughable.

I've always found that the more time, money, and employee hours a company spent on tracking metrics, the crappier that company was. (My sample size here is admittedly small.)
RubyOnRails isn't new buzzy tech. It was in 2008, but it will be the source of large web stacks for many years to come. I would go with node JavaScript. It's battle tested at this point and there is a lot of demand, meanwhile many of its patterns are still evolving, so there's a lot to learn. I would not say it's worth learning a specific framework to go along with it, but it depends on what side of the stack you want to work.
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Yeah, but that doesn't mean there couldn't be more.
> So you would prefer to have the friction of an app store, or even just a platform-specific native executable, for every little service?

Yes, every time I have the option to do so.
I might well have read it here or on reddit, I don't remember.

I guess it's ok to propagate a factoid as long as it's true.
Blew up the whole firm actually, and was more closely related to change management policies and systems monitoring.

The SEC order there is an interesting read for anyone involved in large scale transactional systems: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2013/34-70694.pdf
That already exists. It's called SDRs, or Special Drawing Rights, and is a basket of currencies. SDRs are the reserve currency of the IMF.
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This headline sounds like it was generated by a Markov chain reading hacker news.
Good question. I assume you upload a cert? My question: what happens when I side load on my phone with a different compiler but ship it to MS who uses a different version and the app runs differently?
The problem is that the SAT isn't a very interesting test, IMO, for college admission. It doesn't test achievement, but is closer to an IQ test. I think its reasonable for top-tier schools to create a cut-off, but once you score above a threshold, I don't think it provides much value.

And as another poster noted -- Asians are still greatly overrepresented at Harvard. Faust really is saying that Whites aren't interesting (Blacks are of about average interest as their numbers match the general population now).
Take up the White Man's burden, Send forth the best ye breed
Go bind your sons to exile, to serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.
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It's not taking anything away--both definitions are valid and commonly used. It's just up to the pair of you to realize you're talking past each other. She'd probably have no trouble agreeing that white people can be the target of bigotry just as you'd agree that white people are rarely at the pointy end of broader systemic injustices, at least in this society.

Much as it may be fun, I'd caution against attributing it some kind of conspiracy of sociologists.
Oracle is planning to finally add it to the standard JDK around Java 10 timeframe, but it might be a premium feature similar to the mission control licensing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xybzyv8qbOc&list=PLX8CzqL3Ar...
Quoting the great feedback from Gankro on Reddit:

Discussing this on Twitter/IRC:

* Wants const size_of closures (for statically allocating that many bytes). We just need RFC #1245 to get implemented (it has been accepted), and for someone to mark the size_of intrinsic as a const fn. However this might get into the weeds pretty bad since "size" is handled by trans (LLVM even). Dunno those details.

* Shared mutability of hardware registers should be able to be soundly handled by Cell.

This leaves the big issue:

The kernel has been architected as a single "main" thread, and a bunch of interrupt handling threads. All the interrupt-handling threads do is enqueue a message for the main thread to handle. The main thread then drives all the drivers off of this queue, so they all run on one thread. However they want to do some shared mutable stuff. In particular, I think they want closures that close over the same value mutably? RefCell isn't particularly acceptable because crashing is Super Bad, and they would like to avoid runtime checks anyway. They just found out about Cell, so it might work, but they seem to think this wouldn't be right.

You can make Cells pretty fine-grained. You can also consider /u/SimonSapin's proposed extension to Cell which has a replace method for non-Copy types so you could replace (say) an arbitrary Cell<Option<T>> with None temporarily through a shared reference.

Alternatively, it might be possible to manually thread the shared mutable state since it's all being driven by some top-level event-loop (as far as I can tell). This was actually an old std pattern: https://doc.rust-lang.org/0.11.0/std/collections/hashmap/str... (the A is "shared" closed state).

Interested to hear more about the finer details of the shared mutable state!
This is your collection of videos? If you email me the Swift links with titles, I will add Swift videos to my database:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html

Email is at bottom of page.
"For humans" is surely intended to be the opposite of "for computers". It's meant to say "When we designed this thing, we made it a high priority for it to be easy to learn, easy to remember, and easy to use".

There's certainly an implication that other libraries are designed without sufficient attention to human factors, and maybe that's kinda rude, but the same goes for making any positive claim. "A library for efficient high-precision computations": are all the others inefficient? "A flexible and powerful tool for retrieving structured data from web APIs": are all the others inflexible and weak? "A standard-conformant C++ parser": are all the others broken? (None of those examples, so far as I know, are from real projects, but clearly they all could be.)
Is there a way to see if this feature was used? I use LinkedIn so sparsely, I don't know if I ever sent any emails out to anyone.
I've usually found that when metrics become the focus of an organization, the organization optimizes around gaming the metrics. This happens in companies, volunteer groups, communist dictatorships, capitalist paradises, everywhere.

Something inevitably gives.

I also have a hard time believing that this idea is floating putting a piece of paper on everybody's desks, in 2015.
Is there free daycare available in Finland? How good is it?
This is nothing new. This relic of the British Empire is found in Silicon Valley today. It connects to misperceptions around genetics. I'm screenshotting this comment btw as proof as I'm sure the group removing it will deny this. Good story for the press.
Best remedy -- watch shows with other minority actors.

I watch Fresh of the Boat and just started watching Quantico, among other shows with non-traditional ethnic leads. And TV is one of the few places in society where its relatively easy to show your support for diversity.
Agree with you but I have to call something out about JS. The thing I most hate about JavaScript is how slow JIT is and I think we have wasted tons of industry resources trying to write better engines instead of pushing for lower level access to the client metal from the web server.
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Maybe the real question is how your 0.01% can find each other in order to discuss ideas.

From what I have read, the people at PARC got there by similar routes, there was one group from SDS and another from Evans & Sutherland. I'm not sure we still have the same kind of "landmarks" that will attract the right people.
It's a SELF IMAGE THING! If your mom came into your room every day and had a talk about how SCARED SHE WAS that you were GOING TO MAKE A BILLION DOLLARS.. Likely you'd go out there and make a billion dollars. People often rebel just for the sake of defining their own boundaries!!!!
How many Latino or African American kids are different? How many "White" kids are standing out? All white kids seem the same is not an understatement.
Are you the geniuses who invented the copyrightable API?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/bad-news-supreme-court...

http://martinfowler.com/articles/copyright-api.html

http://www.wired.com/2012/05/api-copyright/

http://www.fastcompany.com/3048218/app-economy/heres-the-sca...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150817/11362131983/yes-a...
I'm more successful than 99.9% of people on the planet and 95% in the Bay Area by my current income and net worth, and yes 95% of that success is from pure luck (being born into a wealthy family, having my college paid for, being able to attend elite prep schools, starting life 500k in the black instead of 250k in the hole, and good life skills about how to save and invest instead of spend all my money...). I'm not selfish and I know I don't deserve this, it's just luck of the draw for the most part. I wish we didn't live in this pseudo-aristocratic society, and I want to do everything I can to give back and change so that future generations can be more equal.
Devaluing the Yuan has set any hopes of it being a reserve currency back by a decade at least. It was a move of weakness and has accelerated capital outflow from China as well as causing some head scratching about the competence of party leaders, because it seems unduly drastic, unless things are worse than they seem.
Wow, Vulcan awaits you Sir! You are way more cynical than I am ... either that or really as depressed as the guy in the story? Maybe you are angry at the reflection this story forced on you? I wish you well in any case.
"For startups, loudness is a virtue."

Love this last sentence. Build what people want and then be loud.
Nowhere did it say only 20% are helped. It says 20% more effective with other treatments. Either you're not reading or you're not comprehending.

I'm sorry therapy didn't work for you or you didn't want to try it, but I'm not sure what your agenda is.

You seem to have some weird axe to grind about people making money. I'm not sure what else I can say as you seem to want to believe the whole thing's a big rip-off. Like where does the claim that untrained listeners are as good as trained ones come from?